Diabetes, Vol 30, Issue 3 231-234, Copyright © 1981 by American Diabetes Association

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Block in insulin release from column-perifused pancreatic beta-cells induced by islet cell surface antibodies and complement

T Kanatsuna, A Lernmark, AH Rubenstein and DF Steiner

Dispersed rat pancreatic islet cells were mixed into a short column of Bio-Gel P-2 polyacrylamide beads and perifused with an antiserum containing islet cell surface antibodies. The release of radioactive chromium from prelabeled cells, as a measure of cell membrane permeability, was not affected by cell surface antibodies alone, but increased dramatically in the presence of complement. While there was an eightfold increase in glucose-stimulated insulin release from beta-cells exposed to control serum and complement, insulin release was completely blocked from beta-cells exposed to islet-cell-specific antibodies and complement. These findings suggest that islet cell surface antibodies can mediate complement-dependent cytotoxicity.
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